I'm not a fan of being force fed this kind of intrusive junk. At the same time, I'm too chicken to root my phone to get rid of all the stuff I don't want.

As an original Inc owner who upgraded to the S3 to retain the unlimited data plan but still had an eye on the Inc 4g, hearing these reports bums me out. I'm sure the S3 will have its own pile of junk too but was hoping the Inc 4g would be a little more pristine.

Seriously. USE CHROME! Dont bother tinkering with the slow stock Internet browser. Chrome is so much better/faster/cleaner and allows you to customize your favorites (and remove whichever ones you like).

Also the biggest thing that was annoying me about the stock Internet browser was it would have to reload web pages that youve already loaded if you happened to put your phone in idle/sleep mode after you pulled that page up. I dont understand why the page needed to be reloaded when you turn back on and open the browser, but with chrome it doesnt.

I did switch to Chrome for about a week and it was ok. The bookmark button is hidden under the menu unless I'm missing something and after the menu pops up the bookmark link is all the way up top which is a far stretch for my short fingers. I actually prefer Dolphin to Chrome and started using that more recently.
I rooted the other night and got rid of all the booksmarks I didn't want. I just never really had an issue with the stock browser on my Thunderbolt, but it's changed under ICS.

Seriously. USE CHROME! Dont bother tinkering with the slow stock Internet browser. Chrome is so much better/faster/cleaner and allows you to customize your favorites (and remove whichever ones you like).

Also the biggest thing that was annoying me about the stock Internet browser was it would have to reload web pages that youve already loaded if you happened to put your phone in idle/sleep mode after you pulled that page up. I dont understand why the page needed to be reloaded when you turn back on and open the browser, but with chrome it doesnt.

Do yourself a favor and just use chrome.

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Do you know how to get pages to not open in "page overview" mode? That's my only beef with chrome.